Introduction | Agency History | Scope and Content | Series Description | Inventory

Introduction

The correspondence, printed material, and photographic items of the Utah Gospel Mission span from 1895 to 1952.

The collection was transferred to the Center for Archival Collections in August 1982 from the Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University. The collection was acquired in 1970 from J. Morley Nutting. No restrictions apply to the use of the collection for scholarly research. The register was prepared by Marilyn Levinson from March-August 1986.

Agency History

The Utah Gospel Mission was an inter-denominational organization incorporated in January 1900 with the stated purpose of mounting a national crusade against Mormonism. The primary activity of the UGM was through missionaries, operating out of wagons in the Mormon areas of the West, providing literature and speakers.

Members of the founding Executive Committee of the Mission included Dr. George H. McGrew of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Cleveland as President, Rev. Robert Moffett of the Disciple Church in Cleveland as Vice-President, and Douglas Perkins of Cleveland Trust Company as Treasurer. Other prominent members of the Board of Trustees included Rev. Charles F. Thwing of Western Reserve University, William Goodell Frost of Berea College, and Rev. John Henry Barrows of Oberlin College.

The moving force behind the organization was Rev. John Danforth Nutting (1854-1949), a Congregational minister from Cleveland who had experience as a pastor in Salt Lake City from 1892-1898. He served as Secretary and Superintendent of the Utah Gospel Mission from its founding until his death in 1949. In addition, his son J. Morley served as a member of the Board of Trustees and as a missionary during the 1920's. Another son, Paul T. Nutting, was a member of the Advisory Committee.

The Utah Gospel Mission concentrated its work in the West, particularly Utah and Idaho, with a peak of activity occurring in the mid-1930's. In addition to monetary problems, the UGM seemed to have a continual problem with keeping its field operations staffed. An arrangement with Moody Institute in Chicago to supply field workers resulted in considerable friction during 1941. During September 1942 another incident arose when three of the field missionaries working in Utah with Nutting, then age 88, wrote a letter to the Board suggesting that he be replaced as manager of the field operations. Clearly the work of the Mission involved considerable internal friction. While the activity of the Mission continued through the 1940's, the death of J.D. Nutting in 1949 probably marked the end of effective operations.

Scope and Content

The Utah Gospel Mission Collection presents a valuable documentary source on a religious/missionary organization of the early twentieth century, as well as providing a glimpse into the anti-Mormon sentiments of the general Christian community and the career of a missionary in the field.

The personal correspondence in the Collection, while giving little substantial insight on the UGM itself, illustrates the thoughts and fears of a man, J.D. Nutting, who had devoted his entire life to anti-Mormon missionary work. The bulk of the printed works in the Collection are influenced by his writings in the annual reports and many of the pamphlets. His control over the decisions and operations of the Mission was undoubtedly considerable. The letters to his son, J. Morley, provide a private view of many of the controversies of the 1940's, such as the Moody Institute problem and the discontent among the field missionaries in 1942.

The photographic component of the Collection has a value on two different levels. The most direct use is as visual documentation of the operation of the Mission. Many of the photos in the Collection were used as illustrations in the annual reports, particularly views of the Missionaries at work. Taken on a more objective level, the photographs provide examples of architecture, families, clothing, social and religious life, and material culture. While many of the images have little or no identification, they still provide glimpses into daily life in Utah and Idaho small towns. Arrangement of the slides, negatives, and prints is based loosely on some dated photographs, internal evidence, and similarity between images. In most cases the dates given are not certain, ranging from 1895 through 1940.

Series Description

CORRESPONDENCE

UTAH GOSPEL MISSION. BOARD OF TRUSTEES CORRESPONDENCE
1937, 1941, 1942, 1944.
Arranged chronologically
Includes general notices of future meetings, with some mention of agenda.

J.D. NUTTING CORRESPONDENCE
1937, 1941, 1942, n.d.
Arranged chronologically
Mostly outgoing, primarily to son, J. Morley Nutting, from the field, detailing travels, work relations with other missionaries, the "Moody Institute" controversy, and family matters; with one reply from J. Morley.

REPORTS

UTAH GOSPEL MISSION ANNUAL REPORTS
1910, 1913, 1915, 1917-1918, 1929-1931, 1933-1937, 1939-1943.
Arranged chronologically
Includes summary of missionary activity for the year, publications issued, speaking/fundraising activities, and expenses. Cumulative statistical summaries of field work and finances; lists of Officers, members of the Board of Trustees, and the Advisory Committee.

LITERARY PRODUCTIONS

RESEARCH NOTES
n.d.
Handwritten notes (possibly written by J.D. Nutting) with page references and quotations for sermons or pamphlets; lists of Palestine negatives (for presentations?); lists of bibliographic sources on Mormon topics at Chicago Public Library, Newberry Library, and Berrien College.

PRINTED MATERIAL

PAMPHLETS
1900-1952.
Arranged by subject, and within, chronologically.
Pamphlets and leaflets, mostly published by the Utah Gospel Mission. Generally, the subject matter deals either with fundraising and membership support for the Mission work, or with doctrinal controversies of Mormon theology. Many of the texts were written or edited by J.D. Nutting. Also included are circulars or publicity material for press distribution, and tickets to a lantern-slide presentation.

PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS

POSITIVE TRANSPARENCIES
c.1889-1915.
Arranged by subject.
Glass lantern slides used for presentations made by the wagon missionaries. Topics include Biblical and ancient history, temperance, patriotic themes, and travelogues.

NEGATIVES
c. 1895-1940.
Rough chronological arrangement
Glass plate negatives, with a few nitrate and safety film negatives. Photographed by the Utah Gospel Mission wagon missionaries in the West (primarily in Utah and Idaho.)

POSITIVE PRINTS
c. 1893-1940.
Rough chronological arrangement
Contemporary enlargements and contact study prints from selected negatives in the collection. Prints were made by an unknown party. A link is made between the print and the negative in the collection by the negative group and item number written on the verso of the print. (There is no corresponding reference from the negative to the print.) Subjects include views of local scenery, churches, schoolrooms, houses, local industry, family groups, and the wagon missionaries with their equipment.

Inventory

Box 1

Folders

1. Correspondence-Utah Gospel Mission Board, 1937-1944
2. Correspondence-J.D. Nutting, 1937-1942, n.d.
3. Annual reports-Utah Gospel Mission, 1910-1943
4. Research notes, n.d.
5. Pamphlets-Religious subject matter, 1900-1952
6. Pamphlets-Utah Gospel Mission subject matter, 1902-1945, n.d.

Box 2: Positive transparencies

• Group I - Ancient History
  1. Royal mummies in the museum at Boolak
  2. Rosetta stone
  3. Archimedes crater in the Lunar Apennines
  4. "They all with one accord began to make excuse"
  5. Lighthouse
  6. Lighthouse falling
  7. Woman
  8. Sheep in a valley
  9. Great Hall of Karnak
• Group II - Old Testament/Exodus
  1. Passage of the Red Sea
  2. Passage of the Red Sea (negative)
  3. Discord in Jacob's family
  4. Joseph sold into Egypt
  5. Joseph forgiving his brethren
  6. Israel in Egypt
  7. Israel in Egypt (negative)
  8. Joseph ruler in Egypt
  9. Joseph ruler in Egypt (negative)
  10. Moses sent at a deliverer
  11. The Passover instituted
  12. Death of the Firstborn
• Group III - Rome
  1. Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus
  2. Bridge of St. Angelo and Tomb of Hadrian
  3. Pantheon, Rome
  4. Caesar's army
  5. Regulus, unmoved, departs
  6. Rome
  7. Rome (duplicate slide)
  8. Roman soldiers firing the Temple at Jerusalem
  9. Exterior of the Colosseum, Rome
  10. Interior of the Colosseum, Rome
  11. Ruins in Rome
  12. Relief sculpture on a building
  13. Arch of Titus
  14. Cemetery of Scipio in Rome
  15. Via Appia
  16. Forum in Rome
  17. Lucretia
  18. Cornelia and her jewels
  19. Liberality of the Roman matrons
  20. The transfiguration, by Raphael
  21. Laocoonte, Vatican Gallery
  22. St. Peter's and the Vatican
• Group IV - Greece
  1. Female figure
  2. Athena Parthenos
  3. Unidentified statue
  4. Venus de Milo
  5. Greek ruins
  6. Discus thrower
  7. Relief of mother and child
  8. Instruction
  9. Greek girls playing ball
  10. Parthenon restored
  11. Interior of Parthenon from East
  12. Marble shield showing head of Medusa
  13. Western facade of Propylaia
  14. Chair from Theater of Dionysius
  15. Propylaia
  16. Apollo seated
  17. Eastern portico of Parthenon
  18. School of Athens
  19. Interior of Temple of Zeus
  20. Relief from the Parthenon
  21. Greek wrestlers
  22. Theater of Bacchus at base of Acropolis
  23. Athlete statue
  24. Boxer
  25. Apollo Belvidere
  26. Plato and Aristotle
  27. Caryatids
  28. Temple of Jupiter
  29. Acropolis of Athens
  30. Seated Zeus
  31. General view of the Acropolis
  32. Temple at old Corinth
  33. Parthenon, Athens, Greece
  34. General view of Erechtheum, Acropolis
  35. Interior of Parthenon from West gate
  36. Ancient market-place, Athens
  37. Western portico of Parthenon, from above
  38. Fallen columns of the Parthenon
  39. Greek tablet
  40. Eastern facade of Erechtheum, Athens

Box 3

• Group V - Palestine
  1. Hill of Evil Counsel, from the South Wall, Jerusalem
  2. Nablus, Vale of Shechem
  3. Bethlehem, from south-west
  4. Kefr et Tur, the village on the summit of Olivet
  5. Rock tombs north of Jerusalem
  6. Bethany
  7. Platform of the Dome of the Rock
  8. Entrance to the Citadel
  9. Tower of David
  10. Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
  11. View in Bethlehem
  12. Robinson's Arch, Jerusalem
  13. The village of Taiyibeh
  14. View from Neby Samwil
  15. Hermit's caves in the Cliffs of the Kedron
  16. Sea of Galilee from the Heights of Safed
  17. A peasant's home
  18. Tophet
  19. Aceldama
  20. Dead Sea and Mountains of Moab
  21. Jerusalem from the South
  22. A threshing floor
  23. Ruins on a hill
  24. Mount of Olives
  25. Upper pool of Siloam
  26. Pilgrims of the Greek Church
  27. Mount Quarantania
  28. Valley of the Jordan
  29. Quarries near to Damascus Gate
  30. Garden of Gethsemane
  31. Valley of Hinnom
  32. Jerusalem from Scopus
• Group V - Palestine
  1. Street in Damascus
  2. Mount Scopus from St. Stephen`s Gate
  3. Mount of Olives from Mount Zion
  4. Mosque of the Knights of the Crescent
  5. Zion Gate
  6. Ships at Smyrna
  7. Smyrna
  8. Tomb of Polycarp
  9. Pulpit in a church
  10. City of Jerusalem, map
  11. Wailing Wall of the Jews
  12. Plain of El Raha
  13. Jacob's Well
  14. Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
  15. Capharnaum
  16. City and Lake of Tiberias
• Group VI - Egypt
  1. Pectoral
  2. Obelisk
  3. Rameses the Great mummy
  4. Bronze tools
  5. Map of Ancient Egypt
  6. Treaty of Peace between Rameses II and Hittites
  7. King's chamber, Pyramid of Cheops
  8. Sarcophagus
  9. Tablet from Tel-El-Amarna
  10. Head of mummy of Mer-En-Re
  11. Pyramid of Zoser
  12. Drawing water
  13. Egyptian tablets
  14. Ruins of Philae
  15. Great Pyramid of Cheops
  16. Harper and choir, from Tello, Arabia, 3000 BC
  17. Antiquities from Thebes
  18. Rameses tomb
  19. Artesian wells
  20. All the Royal mummies in the Gizeh Museum
  21. Statue of Rameses II
  22. Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Amon
  23. Water carriers
  24. "Forced laborers of the Semitic Race"
  25. Stele of Victory, Wady of the Dog River, Berut
  26. Hieratic papyrus of Princess Nasi-Khonsu
  27. Accessions to Haskell Museum
  28. Accessions to Haskell Museum (negative)
  29. Unbaked brick made of Nile mud
• Group VII - England
  1. Tintern Abbey
  2. Stonehenge
  3. Conway Castle
  4. Coronation chair - Westminster Castle
  5. Tomb of Queen Elizabeth I, Westminster
  6. Tomb of Black Prince
  7. Iona Cathedral from southwest
  8. Canterbury Cathedral
  9. St. Paul's Cathedral, London
  10. Tower of London
  11. Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh
  12. West Towers, Westminster Abbey

Box 4

• Group VIII - Micronesia
  1. Native church built of coral, Samoa
  2. Bread-fruit
  3. King Malietoa at home
  4. Kusaie
  5. Coral, madrepora aspera, D.
  6. Young man of the Marshall Islands
  7. The fourth Morning Star
  8. Caroline Island warrior
  9. Shells and coral
  10. Moses Kaure and family
  11. Sea anemones
  12. Duplicate of VIII:11
  13. King Malietoa and orator
  14. Duplicate of VIII:13
  15. Lagoon island in Micronesia
  16. Native council house or maneaba, Gilbert Islands
  17. Young warrior, old man, and woman of Marquesa Islands
  18. Gilbert Island warriors
  19. Marshall Island house
  20. Unidentified young man
  21. Unidentified older man
  22. Group of natives in front of grass house
  23. Residence of Malietoa
  24. Native of Niutao worshipping a post
  25. "Morning Star" harbor and Ova, island of Ponape
  26. Samoan duck-duck dancers
  27. Grave of a missionary
  28. Missionary in front of native church
  29. Group of native boys (at a school?)
  30. Duplicate of VIII:29
  31. Native group in front of a church
  32. Unidentified man
  33. Man standing on a native-built dock
  34. Large outrigger
  35. Inside a large native building
  36. Native women in western-style dresses
  37. Man with a beard
  38. Unidentified woman
• Group IX - China
  1. Nativity of Confucius
  2. Scene at Kongkeo
  3. Chinese children
  4. Country mission chapel in China
  5. Foochow mission
  6. Chinese pastors
  7. Graduating class of 1895
  8. Chapel at Pan-Chuang, Shantung, China
  9. Interior of a gildhall, Canton
  10. Chinese officials who attended the exercises
  11. Temple of Heaven, Peking
  12. Medical missionary hospital, Fuhchau
  13. Huchau Mission
  14. Nine story pagoda, Canton, China
  15. Map of China
  16. Temple worshipers
  17. Paper money seller
  18. Church in Foochow suburbs
  19. The Cangue in China
  20. Officers of the Christian Endeavor Society, Foochow
  21. Mr. Ling
  22. Mission hospital
  23. A Fox temple by the city wall of Tung-cho
  24. A Chinese idol
  25. A Christian school
  26. Parlor in a private house, Canton
  27. Memorial banners from Tung-cho
  28. Group of workers in Peking

Box 5

• Group X - Europe
  1. Papyrus leaves
  2. Convent of St. Catherine at Sinai
  3. Homer's Iliad, fragments
  4. Archaeologists at work
  5. Clay tablets
  6. Stele of Victory (duplicate of VI:25)
  7. Egyptian tablets
  8. Rosetta stone (duplicate of I:2)
  9. Wycliffe New Testament
  10. Moabite stone tablet
  11. Reading the Bible at home
  12. "That church spire made his neck safe"
  13. Victorious hymn of Merneptah
  14. Stela of Senjirli
  15. Hittite relief sculpture
  16. Cylinder of Cyrus
  17. Lines from Medieval manuscripts
  18. Scribes
  19. Gothic gospels
  20. Syriac and Hebrew manuscripts
  21. Facsimile from the Book of Abraham
• Group XI - "Signals for the voyage of life"
  1. Signals for the voyage of life (title slide)
  2. I will fear no evil
  3. Leave me not
  4. Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven
  5. He bringeth them unto their desired haven
  6. The Lord is on my side
  7. Beware, lest thou forget the Lord
  8. Prepare to meet thy God
  9. Put on the whole armour of the Lord
  10. Farewell (end slide)
• Group XII - Temperance
  1. Arrival at the "Sickle and Sheaf"
  2. [housed with damaged slides: Box 12]
  3. Slade throws a glass at Joe Morgan and hits Mary
  4. Joe Morgan suffering the horrors of Delirium Tremens
  5. Death of Joe Morgan's little Mary
  6. Frank Slade and Tom Wilkins riding off on a spree
  7. Willie Hammond is induced by Harvey Green to gamble
  8. Harvey Green stabs Willie Hammond to death
  9. Quarrel between Slade and his son Frank
  10. [housed with damaged slides: Box 12]
  11. [housed with damaged slides: Box 12]
  12. Departure from the "Sickle and Sheaf"
  13. The woes of the drunkard
  14. Double exposure of XII:13
  15. Positive slide of XII:13
• Group XIII - Patriotic
  1. A Kentucky hand-mill
  2. A flat-boat
  3. Freedom's memorial
  4. Valley Forge
  5. A Continental bill
  6. Proclamation of emancipation
  7. Thomas Lincoln's Bible
  8. Washington's bedroom at Mt. Vernon
  9. David Verplanck house, near Fishkill
  10. Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia
  11. Washington's birthplace
  12. Washington resigning his commission
  13. Abraham Lincoln's school copybook page
  14. U.S. Grant
  15. Negative of XIII:14
  16. Faith monument, Plymouth, Mass.
• Group XIV - Turkey and Armenia (1897)
  1. Map of the Turkish Empire
  2. American mission at Harpoot, partially destroyed
  3. A village family in Turkey
  4. Turkish soldiers
  5. Monastery of Etchmiadzin
  6. Erzroom
  7. Burial pit at Erzerum
  8. Galata Bridge, Constantinople
  9. Mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople
  10. Interior of St. Sophia, Constantinople
  11. Old Armenian Church of Oorfa
  12. Armenian rebels who would not pay taxes
  13. Instructors and graduates of Anatolia College
  14. Island monastery of Aghtamar, in Lake Van
  15. Mohammedan school boys in holiday attire
  16. Dr. Grace N. Kimball, "the heroine of Van"
  17. Old tower of the school of Edessa, Oorfa
  18. Six children of Mr. Abouhaiatian
  19. Rev. Hagop Abouhaiatian
  20. Kindergarten in Yozgat, Galatia
  21. Armenian tombstone of A.D. 934
• Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission programs
  1. The real Mormon issue
  2. Presbyterian Church with buggy (slide of 1905b:8)
  3. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men, 1 woman) (1909:9)
  4. Temple, Salt Lake City (1912b:6)
  5. Church and school building (1905b:17)
  6. Poster advertising Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  7. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men) (1905b:5)
  8. Former Presbyterian Church, Chicago (1905a:10)
  9. Zion Co-Operative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City
  10. Large church group picture
  11. Small mountain cascade (1917c:1)
  12. Mountain gorge with ladder
  13. Joseph Smith as Lieut. Gen. of the Nauvoo Legion
  14. Book of Mormon "Reformed Egyptian" text
  15. School group/Mormon primary at Mantua (1905d:11)
  16. Anti-Saloon cartoon
  17. Religious painting of the Nativity
  18. Hymn 48 [text]
  19. School children with American flags (1912b:7)
  20. Church interior (1902:12)
  21. First Presidency and Council of 12 Apostles (1917c:2)
  22. Anchor Silver Mine, near Park City, Utah
  23. Duplicate of XV:22

Box 6

• Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission programs
  1. Wagons in valley by small house (1905d:7)
  2. State Penitentiary in Salt Lake City
  3. Mormon Apostles in Penitentiary
  4. Mother and child inside home, Idaho (1905b:9)
  5. Mormon Temple and Tabernacle, Cardston
  6. Missionaries (3 wagons, 11 men)
  7. Large house
  8. Street in Hyrum, Utah (1905b:11)
  9. Church under construction (1907/08:4)
  10. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
  11. Brigham Young Academy, Provo, Utah
  12. Providence meeting house exterior/interior (1912b:9)
  13. Mormon assembly or meeting
  14. Duplicate of XV:37
  15. Trinity M.E. Church, Logan (1905b:7)
  16. Latter Day Saints Business College (3 bldgs.) (1905a:15)
  17. Children with May Pole (1912b:1)
  18. Mormon Tabernacle Choir (1912b:19)
  19. Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City
  20. House with large stone wall (nd VI:3)
  21. "What shall the harvest be?"
  22. P. wife and children (1905b.:16)
  23. Mormon home (exterior of XV:27)
  24. Mormon Church, Chicago (1915:7)
  25. Similar to XV:48-tinted
  26. Missionaries (1 wagon, 3 men) (1902:9)
  27. Plymouth Church, school children
  28. Teacher with young boys (1912b:9)
  29. Missionaries (3 wagons, 12 men) (1916b:14)
  30. President Joseph F. Smith
  31. New Tithing House, Salt Lake City
• Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission programs
  1. Woman standing by geologic "hot pots"
  2. Dirt road with fence by small town (1915:13)
  3. Mormon Tabernacle, Provo
  4. Two wagons in winter (1905d:10)
  5. Building with a flag at street corner (1905d:10)
  6. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men)
• Negatives - Nitrates
  1. Missionaries (2 wagons, 1 woman, 3 men) 1920
  2. Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 7 men) 1925
  3. Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 10 men) 1925
  4. Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 7 men by roadside) 1925
  5. Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 7 men) 1925
  6. Missionaries (Yellowstone?, 3 wagons, 6 men) 1925
  7. Missionaries (8 men by rapids) 1925
  8. Missionaries (8 men by rapids; similar to #7) 1925
  9. Missionaries (with band, the "Singing Evangelists") 1925
  10. Missionaries (with band, similar to #9) 1925
  11. Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men-blurred) 1925?
  12. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men) 1925?
  13. Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men) 1925?
  14. Missionaries (3 wagons, 4 men) 1927
  15. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1920's
  16. Missionaries (Idaho, 2 wagons, 2 men) 1928
  17. Missionaries (2 wagons, 4 men) 1928?
  18. Missionaries (2 wagons, 5 men) 1928?
  19. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men) 1929
  20. Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men) 1929
  21. Missionaries (Utah?, 3 wagons, 7 men) 1930
  22. Missionaries (3 wagons, 8 men) 1930
  23. Missionaries (1 wagon, 4 men in field of flowers) 1930?
  24. Missionaries (3 wagons, 11 men) 1930?
  25. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1930?
  26. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1930?
  27. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men) 1930?
  28. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men) 1930?
  29. Missionaries (2 wagons, 4 men) 1930?
  30. Missionaries (3 wagons, 5 men) 1930?
  31. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1931
  32. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1931
  33. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1931
  34. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) 1931
  35. Missionaries (3 wagons, 11 men) 1931?
  36. Missionaries (Logan, Utah, 2 wagons, 4 men) 1939?
  37. Missionaries (3 wagons, 5 men) 1940
  38. Missionaries (3 wagons, 5 men) 1940
  39. Missionaries (1 wagon, 3 men, incl. J.D. Nutting) 1940?
  40. Missionaries (Wellsville, 3 wagons, 5 men) 1940?
  41. Wagon interior, 1940?
  42. Wagon interior, 1940?
  43. Wagon interior, 1940?
  44. Wagons vandalized with painted slogans, 1940
  45. Wagons in a grove, Menden, Utah, 1940
  46. Wagons parked, 1940
  47. Great Edwin Natural Bridge, Southern Utah, n.d.
  48. Dam, 1925
  49. Waterfall (Yellowstone) 1925
  50. Waterfall (similar to #49) 1925
  51. Canyon with river (Yellowstone?) 1925
  52. Observation platform by waterfall, 1925?
  53. Waterfall, 1925?
  54. Rocks and snow
  55. Farmer's irrigating
  56. Dam and waterfalls
  57. Dam and waterfalls (double exposure of #56)
  58. River and rocks
  59. Street with public building, Salt Lake City, 1917
  60. Street scene (Church & banner across street)
  61. Church on street corner
  62. Canadian Church interior with mural, 1925
  63. Canadian Church gates, 1925
  64. Canadian Church interior
  65. Canadian Church interior (similar to #62)
  66. Manhattan Church, 1920's
  67. Logan College(?)
  68. Man by gateway
  69. Entrance to Pioneer Mormon Cemetery
  70. Presbyterian Church, Payson, Utah, 1930
  71. High School and Seminary, Payson, Utah, 1930
  72. Class picture
  73. Temple and Tabernacle, Cardstone, Utah
  74. Former Presbyterian Church, Spanish Forks, Utah, 1930
  75. Logan Temple
  76. Monument to three men, Salt Lake City
  77. Statue (out of focus)
  78. Main Street, unknown town, 1930's
  79. The crisis of a life--entering into polygamy (illus.)
  80. First Presidency of the Mormon Church, 1921 (masked ill.)
  81. Bible story of Genesis, Chapter I (copy of text)
  82. Mormon children's story about God (copy of text)

Box 7

• Group Circa 1902
  1. Catechism on baptism (text)
  2. Catechism on baptism (duplicate of above)
  3. Girls' entrance of unidentified school
  4. Mine shaft interior
  5. Group of men, women and children at mine entrance
  6. School group, primary, Mantua, Utah
  7. School group, primary, Paradise, (Utah?)
  8. Building decorated with bunting, statue in front
  9. UGM evangelistic wagon, 1902
  10. Theater ads from Deseret Semi-Weekly, March 31, 1902
  11. Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City
  12. Church interior
  13. Large house
  14. Beach of Salt Lake, July 1900, J.D.N. [John D. Nutting]
• Group Circa 1905
  1. Countryside near Leadville
  2. Man seated on rocks (blurred)
  3. Bureau of Information Building (Salt Lake City?)
  4. Missionaries (2 wagons, 6 men)
  5. Valleyhouse Bar
  6. On U.P. (?) in Wyoming
  7. Dance Hall, Brigham
  8. Tower, Hagerman Pass
  9. Missionaries (2 wagons - double exposure)
  10. Former Presbyterian Church, Chicago, at Paulina & Monroe
  11. Small house and outbuilding
  12. Brigham Young College, Logan
  13. Logan Temple
  14. Idaho Falls, Snake River
  15. Latter-Day-Saints Business College, 3 buildings
  16. Family in front of Mormon home, Idaho
  17. Lee's Opera House, Oakley, Idaho
  18. School group, rolled diplomas on floor
  19. Mormon family
  20. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
  21. Vermont Building, Salt Lake City
  22. Trinity M.E. Church, Logan
  23. Presbyterian Church, with buggy and missionary wagon
  24. Mother and child inside Mormon home, Idaho
  25. Temple at Manti
  26. Street in Hyrum
  27. Street in small town
  28. Teacher with students outside school
  29. Missionary wagons and horses
  30. Missionary wagons entering a valley (emulsion damage)
  31. P. Wife and children
  32. Church and school building
  33. Bureau of Information literature booth (Salt Lake City?)
  34. Group at Pioneer Day, Wellsville, 1904
  35. View of Logan
  36. Mountainside showing vertical faulting
  37. Anchor Silver Mine, near Park City, Utah
  38. School group picture of young men
  39. Construction of a church
  40. Brigham Young Academy, Provo
  41. View of a small town
  42. Two men and two women in front of large tent
  43. Missionaries (3 wagons, 5 men)
  44. Green River Butte, "Wyoming Bar", "Cosy Saloon"
  45. Missionaries (3 wagons, 5 men)
  46. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
  47. Missionary wagons in winter
  48. Missionary wagons entering a valley
  49. Wagons in a mountain valley
  50. Mormon meeting house interior
  51. Agricultural College, Logan
  52. School (?) building (plate scratched)
  53. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men)
  54. Snow Residence in Brigham
  55. Missionary wagons, trestle in background
  56. Wagons in valley by small house
  57. Rocky mountainside
  58. Mission wagons in snow/Landscape (composite)
  59. Building with flag at street corner
  60. School group/Mormon primary at Mantua (composite)
  61. Mormon temples at Logan, Mantua, Salt Lake
  62. Lee's Opera House, Oakley, Idaho (same as #17)
  63. Mormon Church, Chicago (formerly Presbyterian Church)
  64. Mormon Church, Chicago (similar to above)
  65. Latter-Day-Saints Business College, 2 buildings
  66. Green River Butte, general view
  67. Anchor Silver Mine (same as #37)

Box 8

• Group Circa 1906
  1. Ricks Academy
  2. Missionaries (3 wagons in a line, 6 men)
  3. Landscape with distant town
  4. Landscape with phone wires
  5. Missionaries (3 wagons, 8 men)
  6. Wagons parked by small group of buildings
  7. Wagon interior, August, 1906
  8. Landscape with field of wheat
  9. Landscape with mission wagon on road
  10. Church interior, showing decorative ceiling
  11. Two missionaries standing by crude wire fence
  12. Woodruff family tombstone
• Group Circa 1907/08
  1. Valleyhouse Bar
  2. Missionaries (2 wagons, 6 men)
  3. Building with wood fence and sheds
  4. Church under construction with scaffolds
  5. Meeting house interior with decorative walls and ceiling
  6. Restaurant or beer hall
  7. Officials at Cache College
  8. Spanish Fork public school graduates
  9. Outdoor Sunday School
  10. Stake House in Hyrum
  11. Nebo Stake Tabernacle, Payson, Utah
  12. Idols in a Philadelphia collection
  13. Idols (similar to above)
  14. Idols (similar to above)
  15. Men working in a mine
  16. Missionaries (2 wagons, 5 men)
  17. Public school, Utah, 1908
  18. Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men)
  19. Wagons between Provo and Springville, Sept. 1908
  20. Presbyterian Mission School, Payson, Utah, 1908
• Group Circa 1909
  1. School group, holding flowers and rolled diplomas
  2. Gravestones of John Mills Wooley & Seth Taft
  3. Grove of fruit trees
  4. Grove (same as above)
  5. Man and woman by a fruit tree
  6. Missionary wagons, parked in a rocky field
  7. Waterfall down a rocky slope
  8. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men, 1 woman)
  9. Missionaries (same as above)
  10. Missionaries (same as above)
• Group Circa 1910
  1. Machinery in a factory (?)
  2. Two girls by an empty lot and a church
  3. Bishops' Storehouse, Oneida Stake
  4. Church and school (?)
• Group Circa 1912
  1. Missionaries (3 autowagons, 7 men)
  2. Five children in a railroad yard
  3. Thurber School
  4. Auditorium with a "Welcome" sign
  5. Pavilion or dance hall
  6. Church with parish house and fence
  7. Truth gems from the teachings of Joseph Smith (sign)
  8. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men)
• Group Circa 1912
  1. Nebo Stake Tabernacle, Payson, Utah
  2. Church being built
  3. Road by a cemetery
  4. Missionaries (2 wagons, 4 men, 1 woman)
  5. Buildings and trees (out of focus)
  6. Two girls by the side of a building
  7. Dance hall
  8. Missionary wagon beside a shed
  9. Hymn 183/184 [text]
  10. Hymn 48 [text]
  11. Mormon Church, completed in 1893
  12. The Three Witnesses [text]
  13. Temple in Salt Lake City
  14. School children with American flags
  15. Teacher (?) with young boys
  16. Providence Meeting House exterior/interior
  17. Mormon family group picture (circa 1870)
  18. Presbyterian Chapel-School, Kaysville
  19. Church, obscured by trees
  20. Temple at Manti
  21. Canyon area with small footbridge
  22. Churchyard in winter, full of people
  23. Large group around a May Pole
  24. Detail of #31
  25. Detail of #31
  26. Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• Group Circa 1913
  1. Church interior with organ
  2. Large house, second empire style
  3. Mountain valley with small house in distance
  4. Exchange Saloon, Alma, Idaho
  5. Presbyterian Church, American Forks
  6. Rustic Mormon meeting house
  7. Cache Valley
  8. Elders (Tenn.)
  9. Wagons on road in farm valley
  10. Church, with palm tree
  11. Eagle Gate, Salt Lake City
  12. Eagle Gate (same as above)

Box 9

• Group Circa 1914
  1. Farm valley with distant stand of poplar trees
  2. Single wagon on a road
  3. Wagon (same as above)
  4. Church complex, Romanesque style
  5. School group
  6. Missionaries (3 wagons, 8 men)
  7. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men)
  8. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men)
  9. Wagon on road/group picture (double exposure)
  10. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men) (similar to #7)
  11. Missionaries on rocky slope
  12. Large church group
• Group Circa 1915
  1. Small church, children in front with tricycle
  2. Small church (same as above)
  3. Small Mormon Church, car in front
  4. Small Mormon Church, no car
  5. Teaching office, Willard, Utah
  6. Sweeping out a wagon
  7. Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men)
  8. Three wagons in a line on the road
  9. Missionaries with group by wagon
  10. Wagons in valley by log cabin
  11. Dirt road with fence by small town
  12. Dirt road (similar to above)
  13. Temple at Logan
  14. Missionaries (3 wagons, 10 men)
  15. Dirt road (same as #11)
• Group Circa 1916
  1. Butte
  2. Small town at base of mountains
  3. Distant view of Salt Lake City/missionaries (double exp.)
  4. Two people overlooking small valley town
  5. Scrubby land bordering "bad lands"
  6. Mining complex with rail yard
  7. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
  8. Missionaries (similar to above)
  9. Missionaries
  10. Missionaries (1 wagon, 3 men, camped)
  11. Mormon Meeting House, Logan Square, Chicago, 1915
  12. Church youth group "Salt Lake Intermediates"
  13. Hymn "The Gospel-Atonement offered" [text]
  14. Hymn "The Gospel-Atonement provided" (Amazing Grace)
  15. Mormons in Flint, Mich. and Akron, Ohio
  16. Mormon Churches (composite of three)
  17. Two men looking over farm valley with large mound
  18. Mining complex and small town
  19. Mink Creek Canyon, Idaho
  20. Mormon Meeting House, Chicago (similar to #11)
  21. Wagon camped by small stream
  22. Distant view of Willard, Utah
  23. Three Mormon Churches (composite)
  24. Three Protestant Churches, Utah & Idaho (composite)
  25. Missionaries (3 wagons, 12 men)
  26. Logan College (?)
  27. Mormon Church interior, painting with beehive motif
  28. Missionaries (2 wagons, 6 men)
  29. Missionaries (similar to above)
  30. Missionaries (similar to above)
  31. Small Church or schoolhouse
  32. Seagull Monument
  33. Rooftop view of small town
  34. Two wagons by rocky field
  35. College or other institution
  36. Missionaries (3 wagons, 8 men)
  37. Woodruff tombstone (double exposure)
  38. Missionaries (2 wagons, 6 men)
  39. Sightseers at overlook by rapids
  40. Missionaries (1 wagon, 3 men)
  41. Missionaries (similar to above)
  42. Mountain gorge with bridge
  43. Wagon on road in mountains (double exposure)
  44. Mountain area with snow on fields
  45. LDS Church offices, Salt Lake City
  46. Sunnyside Coal Camp
• Group Circa 1917
  1. Small industrial town
  2. School group, by porch
  3. Utah Capitol Building, 1917
  4. Public school, Mormon children
  5. Speaker at a rally
  6. Church interior, pulpit and organ
  7. Wagon on road with ducks in foreground
  8. Rally (double exposure)
  9. Meeting house (?) in small town
  10. Church or meeting house in country
  11. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
  12. Small mountain cascade
  13. First Presidency and Council of the 12 Apostles
  14. Mormons leaving Woodruff, Utah for N. Wyoming, c. 1900
  15. Rooftops in small town
  16. School group
  17. Missionaries (2 wagons on road)
  18. Road to Manti, 1917

Box 10

• Group Circa 1921
  1. Mormon Church interior, verse and painting above door
  2. Temple Square, Salt Lake City
  3. Unknown building (possibly a school)
  4. Missionaries in Salina Canyon
  5. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men)
  6. Temple at Manti
  7. Mormon Meeting House, Logan Square, Chicago
  8. View of Willard, Utah
  9. Teaching office, Willard, Utah
  10. Presbyterian Church, Hyrum, Utah
  11. Missionaries (2 wagons, 3 men, 1 woman) 1920
• Group Circa 1922
  1. Missionaries (3 wagons, 9 men)
  2. School in Paradise, Utah
  3. Schoolhouse with boys on steps
  4. Small farm valley, with two men in foreground
  5. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men, and sign)
  6. LDS seminary (?)
  7. Missionaries in a mountain canyon
  8. Alpine Stake Tabernacle
  9. Missionaries (2 wagons, 7 men)
  10. Missionaries (similar to above)
  11. Cave discovered in 1921
  12. Industries around Midvale (?)
  13. Missionaries (2 wagons, 4 men)
  14. Late afternoon, two dogs, photographer's shadow
  15. Washatch Stake Seminary, 1926
  16. Church or Chapel
  17. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men)
  18. Missionaries (3 wagons, 5 men)
  19. Missionaries (similar to above)
  20. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men)
  21. Missionaries (3 wagons, 6 men)
  22. Green River Butte, with sign on top of butte
  23. Missionaries (3 wagons, 7 men)
  24. Missionaries (similar to above)
• Group No Date
  1. Group of Asian boys
  2. Pasture land
  3. Large lake (Salt Lake?)
  4. Town on edge of Salt Lake
  5. How we spent our money [text]
  6. Class picture
  7. "Gateway" Garden of the Gods
  8. Railroad tracks next to a river
  9. Logging camp
  10. Wooded valley
  11. Brick house with picket fence
  12. Rocks and boulders
  13. Mountain valley
  14. Family and carriage in mountain valley (blurred)
  15. Erosion at base of a mesa
  16. School or academy (double exposure)
  17. Plymouth Congregational Church class (blurred)
  18. Plymouth Church class (similar to above)
  19. Rock pinnacle
  20. Valley with rough wooden bridge
  21. Dam with control buildings
  22. Mountain valley (Parley's Canyon?)
  23. Faulted sedimentary rock
  24. Mountain cascade
  25. Small waterfall
  26. Hillside with eroded rocks
  27. Small mountain waterfall
  28. Large outcropping rock
  29. Distant mountains
  30. Two large rock outcroppings
  31. Salt Lake
  32. Valley road and railway
  33. Columnar rock formation
  34. Waterfall in narrow gorge
  35. Mountains/hills
  36. Rocky hills
  37. Mountain lake
  38. Ice (from a glacier?)
  39. Two small lakes
  40. Mountain view
  41. Mountain valley
  42. Rocky mountain slope
  43. Dirt road at base of mountain
  44. Steep gorge with ladder on ledge
  45. Mountain valley lake
  46. Field with a snowbank
  47. Field (positive image of above)
  48. Mountainside with sparse vegetation
  49. Small town at base of a mountain
  50. Wooded area with cut stumps
  51. Bell dedicated to UGM founders at Plymouth Cong. Church
  52. School classroom
  53. Empty classroom
  54. Logging facility
  55. Class photo, Plymouth Congregational Church
  56. Class photo, Plymouth Congregational Church (different)
  57. Exterior of Plymouth Cong. Church, Salt Lake, in winter
  58. Exterior of Plymouth Cong. Church, with children
  59. Exterior of Plymouth Cong. Church, after Church service
  60. Embezzlement cartoon
  61. Liquor advertisement

Box 11

• Group no date
  1. Interior of unidentified factory
  2. Drying room, Marsac Mill, Park City
  3. House with large stone wall
  4. Large Queen Ann-style house
  5. Ground plan of Plymouth Congregational Church and School
  6. Church, obscured by trees
  7. Outskirts of small town
  8. Utah State Penitentiary
  9. Small house with picket fence
  10. Gardo House, or, Amelia Palace, Salt Lake City
  11. Interior of unidentified factory, stacked barrels
  12. Interior of unidentified factory, pipes and machinery
  13. Railroad tracks
  14. Class photo, hats on the ground
  15. Interior of unidentified factory, vats
  16. House with fence and bare yard
  17. New Tithing House, Salt Lake City
  18. Residential street with streetcar tracks
  19. Unidentified church
  20. Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution, Salt Lake City
  21. Brigham Young Academy, Provo
  22. House with large stone wall (same as #64)
  23. Latter-Day-Saints Business College/? Stake Academy
  24. Exchange Saloon/Rustic Mormon meeting house
  25. Unidentified college buildings
  26. Canyon, Bluelakes, Idaho
  27. Boat moving logs on Salt Lake
  28. House with children on the porch
  29. Park, possibly in Salt Lake City
  30. Mother and children in park
  31. Group of women and children in park
  32. Group on benches in park
  33. San Miguel, Santa Fe
  34. View of city in valley
  35. City (similar to above)
  36. Plymouth Congregational Church, school class photo
  37. Plymouth school class (similar to above)
  38. Children in line by fence, Plymouth Church school
  39. Children in classroom
  40. Joseph Smith's family
  41. Flock of sheep
  42. Mining complex in valley
  43. View of Salt Lake City, incl. Temple Square
  44. Plaque on Joseph Smith and Mormonism
  45. Family group (double exposure)
  46. Wagon on winding mountain road
  47. Orderly farm valley
  48. Countryside, with tracks in foreground
  49. Unidentified factory beside a river
  50. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, poster
  51. Apollo Dance Hall
• Group XIV - Armenia/Turkey
  1. Abd-ul-Hamid Khan
• Group XV - Miscellaneous Mission Programs
  1. Mormon assembly or meeting
  2. Mormon assembly (same as above)
  3. Latter-Day-Saints Business College (2 buildings)
  4. Latter-Day-Saints Business College/? Stake Academy
  5. Apollo Dance Hall
  6. Joseph Smith Statue
  7. Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City
  8. Three Mormon Churches (composite)
  9. Three houses (composite)
  10. Hymn 183 "I'll be a little Mormon" [text]
  11. Catechism for children [text]
  12. Mother and child inside home, Idaho
  13. Distant view of Willard, Utah
  14. Salt Lake City view
  15. Polygamous family
  16. Missionaries (3 wagons, 8 men)
  17. Group in front of log house
  18. Wilford Woodruff and Geo. Q. Car---?
  19. House with picket fence, snow
  20. Large family group
  21. Opera House, Oakley, Idaho
  22. Class with rolled diplomas
  23. Class (similar to above)
  24. Grade school class
  25. Two wagons (green tinted slide)
  26. Wagon interior
  27. Mormon meeting house interior/exterior (composite)
  28. Deseret News building, with bunting decoration
  29. Bureau of Information booth
  30. Mormon Tabernacle Choir, poster
  31. P. wife and children
  32. Great Edwin Natural Bridge, Southern Utah

Box 12

• Group II - Old Testament
  1. Tablet/Moabite stone
  2. Birkit Israil, the pool of Bethesda
  3. "Higher critic"/"The real faith cure"
  4. Plains of Jericho from the west
• Group III - Rome
  1. Orator in the Roman Senate
• Group IV - Greece
  1. The Pythia on the tripod
  2. Panorama of Athens from the Pnyx
• Group V - Palestine
  1. Jerusalem from Mt. of Olives
  2. Valley of Urtas
  3. Beitin, the ancient Bethel
  4. Pools of Solomon
  5. In the Shepherd's Field, Bethlehem
  6. Ruins on summit of Mt. Gerizim
  7. Jewish cemetery in Valley of Jehosephat
  8. "The Place of a Skull"
• Group VI - Egypt
  1. Statue of Dudea, from Tello
  2. Tablets from El-Amarna, b.c. 1450
  3. Tablet of four-hundred years
  4. Egyptian deities
• Group IX - China
  1. Williams Hall, North China College
• Group X - "How the Bible was made"
  1. Ancient writings
  2. Ancient scrolls
  3. Early New Testament texts
• Group XI - "Signals for the voyage of life"
  1. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil
  2. For Thy name's sake lead me and guide me
  3. One earth peace, good will toward men
  4. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee
• Group XII - Temperance
  1. Joe Morgan's little Mary begs him to come home (2)
  2. Frank Slade kills his father with a bottle (10)
  3. Meeting of the citizens in the bar-room (11)
• Group XIV - Armenia/Turkey
  1. Abd-ul-Hamid Khan
• Miscellaneous Mission Programs
  1. Mormon assembly or meeting
  2. Mormon assembly (same as above)
  3. Latter-Day Saints Business College (2 buildings)